Comments on: Fraser Speirs on the iPad And “Future Shock”

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:58:34 +0000

Weird stuff! Sounds like it's probably a WordPress issue, or perhaps a particular WordPress plugin. The fact that the link was right when you checked means it must have gotten the right value from MarsEdit.

Thanks for the extra info!

Daniel

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:45:32 +0000

And apparently Disqus is autoformating links. Anyway, you get the idea.

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:44:24 +0000

Honestly I'm not sure that the bug was in MarsEdit. The link looked fine there, but apparently, after publishing to Wordpress it ended up looking something like this:

http://www.theangrydrunk.comhttp://speirs.org/b...

i.e. my url was prepended to the intended one. Opening the post in the Wordpress editor showed the proper link, and saving the post fixed everything. I'll keep an eye out for similar occurrences.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:35:04 +0000

What was wrong with the link? I would be curious to know if there's a bug in MarsEdit that I can fix. If you have any ideas, please let me know!

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:56:57 +0000

I also found Steven Frank's "Old World vs. New World Computing" article insightful.

Of course the "Old World" wasn't a continuum and contained several "shocks" of equal magnitude, as you know. Some of the people raising a stink about what the iPad represents are either too young to remember this, have the retention of a goldfish, are paid contrarians or just short-sighted wankers.

We have seen this before, kiddie-winks. We will see it again. Until then SHUT THE FUCK UP!

By: The Angry Drunk

The Angry Drunk — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:46:56 +0000

Does now...don't know why MarsEdit borked it.

By: Bjørn

Bjørn — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:28:59 +0000

(the link is not working correctly) whispers